SPOTLIGHT

Reminder – UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR) 2017 call for funding proposals open until 31 July

Nuclear weapon prohibition treaty conference Webcast Archive is now available online

Statement by the Secretary-General on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

UNODA intern discovers personal connection to the history of disarmament

Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with the Leadership Panel of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM)

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) Regional Industry Outreach Conference for the Pacific Alliance States and Brazil

Letter from SG to Security Council transmitting the report of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria regarding an alleged incident in Khan Shaykhun, April 2017

Benin becomes 102nd State Party after joining the Convention on Cluster Munitions

DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

japantimes.co.jp

Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

2017 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

Website for the UN Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons

Disarmament Education

UN Report on Military Expenditures

UNODA UPDATE

UNODA intern discovers personal connection to the history of disarmament

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) Regional Industry Outreach Conference for the Pacific Alliance States and Brazil

Training for Southeast Asian States to Strengthen the Implementation of the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons

National Round Table on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)

Mongolian authorities review measures to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors

ANNOUNCEMENTS

For Member States: New deadlines and procedures for the processing of the reports of the Secretary-General on disarmament issues

Information for non-governmental organizations and their representatives wishing to participate in the 2nd session of the UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination, 15 June – 7 July 2017

EVENTS

July 31 - August 11, 2017

High-level fissile material cut-off treaty expert preparatory group

Geneva, Switzerland

July 31 - September 15, 2017

Conference on Disarmament Part III

Geneva, Switzerland

August 21 - September 1, 2017

CTBTO Working Group B, 49th session

Vienna, Austria

September 4 - 6, 2017

Seventh Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)

Geneva

September 11 - 15, 2017

IAEA Board of Governors

Vienna, Austria

September 11 - 15, 2017

Third Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

Geneva

September 18 - 22, 2017

IAEA General Conference

Vienna, Austria

September 28 - November 2, 2017

General Assembly, First Committee, Seventy-second session

New York

October 2 - 5, 2017

CTBTO Advisory Group, 49th session

Vienna, Austria

October 23 - 25, 2017

CTBTO: Working Group A, 52nd session

Vienna